Bugera 1960 Infinium (Marshall Plexi On A Budget?) 

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First time that I‘m watching a gear review and someone at least mentions that there could be a problem in workers overseas getting paid badly. I think that‘s pretty cool!

I have a Bugera 6260 head running el34 power tubes instead of the stock 6L6s. It sounds amazing. Haven't had any major problems with it. This is the golden age of really good quality cheap gear.

Great plaing, Elmo! This amp is 100watts. It is the same circuit as a Marshall 1959. 4x el34 at 25w per tube in push pull Class AB. And you should not need to jumper the channels. If you are plugged in the upper left input, then it automatically jumpers the channels in parallel. This amp wont work properly if you put a jumper cable because: If you plug into the lower left input, then it will connect the channels in series aka "cascaded channels" or "Randy Rhoads mod". Basically you get an extra preamp stage. Also, you dont need a volume in the loop. This amp already has a PPIMV control on the back that can take it down almost to bedroom level. If it is too loud and you need it to break up earlier at lower volumes, then you can pull tubes: Remove either the outer OR inner pair of output tubes. (remove tubes 1&4 OR 2&3) And then set the impedance selector to half the speaker value (example: set amp to 8 ohms if you have a 16 ohm cab). I recommend putting some tape over the old values of the switch and writing "32-16-8 ohm" on it so that no accidents happen. The amp will be 50w now. And the amp biases automatically, by a built in chip. It also works well with cheap attenuators like the Jettenuator or Bugera PS1, but those attenuators are rated incorrectly. In reality they can only take about 50w. But they work great with this amp if you pull tubes.

Bugera makes pretty killer amps these days. Don’t let some asshole that overpaid on his amp tell you different. They may never be considered classic amps but if you’re a bedroom or weekend warrior guitarist, this will more than serve your needs. And this is coming from a guy that plays and ac30HW.

Came here for a review, stuck around for the licks! Killer playing dude!

The top inputs are jumped together internally, the bottom channel 1 input is both channels in series( cascading gain channel 1 into channel 2) they can't be jumped from the front inputs

For what it's worth, I have been using a Bugera 22 watt combo, for about 12 years. Done hundreds of gigs with it, and never had an issue . I might just be very fortunate, but I'm very happy with mine.

What a great demo you just put out here. It not only sounds really close to the Marshall, it’s also a nice addition for your home recording studio! 🙌🏻

Excellent demo and playing. I've had one of these for over 2 years. Gigged regularly and countless practice sessions during that time. It's fiercely loud and never let me down yet. Pros: Great tone, self biasing - a huge bonus if you swap / replace the tubes, plenty of power and headroom, and a cheap price / good support too. Slight cons: It's heavy and the PPI (acts as a master volume) is on the back -- no idea why they did that. Well worth the money and perfect for what I need (4 piece pub rock band). Thanks for sharing this. Cheers. Mike.

Dude went from metal to blues to metal on one amp without changing any settings, and sounded great the entire time. All for £400

OMG finally a reviewer with enough balls to bring up the ethics of buying stuff made in sweatshops. kinda doesn't count if you buy it second hand though😉 I wonder how repairman-friendly they are because it sounds great next time i see one at a pawn shop ima buys it up!

It sounds amazingly old school for bass too. I had to use one in an emergency situation at a gig where my old Ampeg gave up at the soundcheck. The Bugera was great through a 2x15 for bass

Elmo, you have such a great style. Sometimes it's like you're cracking jokes with the guitar, you're smiling the whole time, and the fretboard is just on fire. Keep it up!!

I have this amp the first input is already jumpered and the second is the low or bass,the bottom 2 inputs are a cascaded pre amp stage like randy rhoads had modde in his jmp marshalls one high and 1 low as well

I don't think it "prolongs tube life" i believe it tells you when your tube is bad plus it's self biasing.

I'm stunned at your ability to shred with both skill and taste! I forgot I was watching the vid for the amp while you were playing.

Thanks for doing the vid Elmo, these can be had for about 270-300 Euros secondhand in jolly old England, that would make a good back up amp. It probably weighs as much as my yjm100 (heavy beast, more is more, lol) and it does have special tube lasting technology but we call it the on, off switch over here, haha.

If the circuit is right and the speakers are good and appropriate for the amp, the tone is more than 80% there. Component quality is IME only 20% of the final tonal recipe.

Nice review, really truthfully, you can't expect the same sound of a plexi with a buguera, but its very close and cheap!! I like it

just a side note... the Bugera 1960 Infinium has the cascaded gain mod, the PPIMV mod already installed... no need to jump any channels, as just plug in to the top left is parallel, and bottom left is cascaded mod. Lower right is -6db cascaded, and top right is just channel 2..... that's why it didn't work "as you thought"

reliability - i had a 333 which is the infamour alleged fire machine.. non infinium..it worked absolutely fine, reliable, with original tubes that were like 14 year old.. absolute unit.. the rumours might have been based on real events but it got all super exagerrated .. while there are mesas with design flaws that havent been sorted out in years which techs complain about and thats fine cuz USA :D

Ha, my Finnish Brother. You speak better English than I do Finnish! I am as close to Finnish as you might find here in the US. We are a proud minority!!! 🤪🇫🇮

You don't jumper the channels on this amp. Top left input is channel 1 and 2 jumpered. Top right is just channel 2. Bottom left is the Randy Rhoads cascaded gain mod, and bottom right is channel 2 low input I think. And as you said, a bypassable PPIMV on the back.

Jumpering does not work because it has the Rhandy Rhoads mod, It does not require to be jumpered.

Lovely to hear someone channeling a bit of JB at 7.30 😎

Lower price doesn't necessarily mean corners were cut. Prices are about supply and demand. The Marshall is more highly sought after, therefore it can command a higher price.

good review mate and thanx for doing it in english good man

I believe it has auto enable jumpering on input 4. Thanks for the video.

i like your noodling at around 7min. :)

Only the first generation had problems with the Molex connector to the output section. No problems with any of the second generation and up. China makes all of our phones and if you pay them enough per unit they will build you a quality product. The inputs on the amp are different from a Marshall and better thought out. Channel 1,2,jumpered ,Randy Rhodes mod. RR mod puts the preamp tubes in series to produce a lot of gain. For touring I would have someone to check all the solder joints ( basically re flow every joint).

Awesome playing and great Demo i love your honesty ❤🎸👌👍👍

I’d have to say, I’d probably go for this over the Marshall 1959hw. I’m trying to slightly replicate Ritchie Blackmore’s tone from the made in Japan album and I think this amp would be it for it!

I owned mine for 2 years and flogged it like a bad dog the entire time and never once had an issue with it. Sold it for $450 and wish i still had it. I did re-tube it although i never had any issue with the cheap tubes that it came with.

Great amps! Great demo and playing! They don't sport the Marshall name tag, but they're close up in the ball park!

Elmo, I've put a Marshall major review in my channel, a modded major. It's in Spanish because I've made the video for the guys who modded it (i'm living in Mexico, but I'm Brazilian). No yjm stuff but it sounds like a beast

Sweet guitar playing man!!!

Sick playing as always

It doesn't matter if and where they cut corners to keep the price down it still sounds great.Lets turn it around maybe the Marshalls and it's equivalents are overpriced.

Great video. Your playing is amazing. I also like that you mentioned the ethical concerns, very very cool.

Great review and affordable plexi amp! We hope a comparison between it and the Marshall plexi, cheers!

Okay first off - what the hell. Your playing left me with my jaw slightly open (I almost didn’t even notice it). Your playing is inspiring - really. Secondly, the amp sounds great! I’m not sure why so many people try to say it’s a heap of smouldering (soldering?) metal junk!

NOBODY CAN SHOW AND TEST THIS AMP ON RU-vid LIKE YOU DO !!!! LIKE I SAID BEFORE - YOU ARE ONE OF THE BEST GUITARPLAYER IN THE WWW.!!!! INCLUDING THE BIG NAMES !!!! I GET THIS AMP - THANK YOU ELMO !!!!

I did some research but you probably already figured it out by now but it's already internally jumped on the top channel one to channel two, channel two on top is only bass. Channel one on the bottom Cascade is actually the Randy Rhodes mod (cascaded gain stages) and channel two bottom is low input if you have active pickups I think. Hope this was helpful to anyone that doesn't know.

Love my Booger 1960 I run it at 90 volts very saggy great sound

I own a musical instrument repair shop and have repaired too many of these to recommend buying one,, even though they do sound great.

Never jumpered an amp myself, bit might well give it a try this winter! Probably with one of those hand made jumpers from Shetland.....

I've had a burgers g20 for a couple years with no issues. The power switch get very hot but it hasn't shut off or anything I'm guessing some power supply parts must not be as heavy duty as the could be but as I said no major problems and the same tubes with at least 2 hours use a day

The bottom left input jumps the channels no need to parch

Sounds AMAZING!!!!

You smoked it Elmo!!

They spelled Bulgaria wrong. :/

Just wanted to let everyone know I found a used Bugera 1960 infinium great condition for $299.00 I couldn't believe it my self MF hooked me this thing looked prestige on photo claims great working condition I'm hoping the tubes had been already changed but if not I will after running it through it's paces can't wait to get it

Nice review Elmo! I shall pronounce it as "Buggerer".

You could make any amp sound killer!

People who disagree with the fact you use a volume control into the Effects Loop are those who bought a $500 Load Box. In some manner, they have to justify they spent a lot of money for a device that completely changes the overall sound of their amp whatever the brand. I did so many years ago, but after a month or two, I sold it! To me the Malmsteen's overdrive sounds the best without the jumper and the guitar connected into the upper left input.

Is it it true you can throw any power tube and any combination and it'll configure it? GENIUS!

You are a hell of a player brother. I am looking at a used Bugera same as this one, on FB Marketplace. The guy wants $250 for it. I am going for a cheap Brown Sound just for here at home. I see you're using the Fender YM overdrive. Which sounds excellent. What overdrive would you reccomend for a Van Halen 1st album sound through the Bugera? Also i subscribed just for your playing lol. You shred clean!!! Rock on. Greetings from Kentucky 🤘😎👍🎸

Fantastic brother!!!

upper inputs # 1 both high and low tone (channel 1and 2) #2 low tone only (channel 2).... lower #1 high tone #2 low tone both are controlled channel 1 gain channel 2 volume

Hey Elmo could you do a comparison between the Origin 20 and the vintage studio 20 that would be interesting to see. Love the channel have a great day.

The amp should sound like that without the overdrive.... a few tweaks to tone stack etc ... and your there ...

I own this amp ! It’s awesome! I

Jks just are linked like Marshalls are, u can easily remedy that if u wanted to

You should try the Bugera 1990. Great JCM 900 clone.

The infinium models have some kind of auto bias, that constantly check and adjust the bias of the power tubes, which in the long run gives the tubes a bit longer life. Which also mean you could swap power tubes without have to adjust the bias yourself.

The peavey Windsor head with 12ay7s in the first two preamp tubes is a Jcm 800 . The stock Windsor gain control is all or none but with the lower gain preamp tubes you will have some headroom. Remember the brown sound comes from power tube compression. If you use lower gain preamp tubes you force the output tubes to compress and work harder. Sooooo if you use 12au7 in the preamp tubes with the Windsor you will get more power tube distortion

I am looking for a 2nd tube amp with 6L6 50 watts with fx loop. I use another amp as the master. Just the power section.

Very good demo it sounded good.I was wondering does it have a reverb tank?

That’s a good amp. The problem is when you have to repair it. It cost almost the amp’s price

one bit of critic,for a plexi review you should play some 60s style power chords like whole lotta love or fire by hendrix alright now by free then the viewer can really tell if this amp can do what its trying to do.nice lead breaks but its the crunch we want to hear.i wont do reviews as i guard my tones ha ha.ill do that once im in the market again ha ha ha

Great amp!

Great tone and riff my brother! Like Yngwie with guitar lessons. Can I ask what the overdrive was? Love that crunnnnch!

Sorry about the long msgs' I won't send you them it must get tedious at best, Take care.

Sounds great! What kind of speakers are you using?

Obviously this thing is going to sound the best LOUD. But how does it sound with the master volume just enough to keep up with a moderate drummer in a small bar? With a slightly clean slightly gritty srv-clean tone?

I think some of those have a master on the back

Channel 3 is 1+2 jumpered in PARALLEL, Channel 4 is 4 > 3 in Series. It says it on the front panel big guy...

Nice videos, could you do a top of the best amps for 200-300 € ?

When you said rally finnish you sound like cross between Hannu Milkkola ansd Juha Kankkunen ( lol ). Nic video btw. Cheers from Portugal.

Elmo its 5 years now do you still have it?

Sounds a bit muddy for my taste, but it is not unlike a Plexi. Great playing!

Ai äm först! Ai think this ämp saunds veri nise. I wuld liek tu hav van. The prise is veri guud for the saund. Rili diisent budjet tuub ämp.

What pickups are in that strat? It sounds so thick?!

Hi Elmo, für den Bugera 1960 Infinium braucht man doch den Jumper gar nicht. Oder irre ich mich????

I have one for sale. Good sounding super loud amp. The infinium version doesn't burn your house down either...

yeahh.

I think it sounds very similar to Randy Rhoads 1959' Marshalls, especially with the gain cranked.

It doesn't channel jump like a marshall because the Infinium models have an input stock that is jumpered. I think they called it the randy rhodes mod or something. Ive owned 2 of these beasts. Only got rid of them because its just to much amp for anything practical.

How does the tone compare to your Marshall?

Can you play faster? Lol i thought we were gonna see some flames and smoke 😆 nice licks man, amp sounds pretty good to me, nice overtones too

Hi, Elmo just wanted to limit something, the infinium bugera 1960 does not need to bridge channels, only connects in the input one and if you raise the volume of the 1 only works the 1 if you raise the 1 and the 2 works as if it was bridged, if you use the entrance 1 and you raise volume 2, and you will notice. Greetings from Argentina

How does it compare to the Marshall code?

This amp does not require the jumper. The mod is built in.

Just thinking here, but it would seem you using the volume thingy in the loop or however you do it would be the same as turning it down at the master? Just wondering. I mean not really reducing the load to the speakers. Whatever works though, but using the master would be easier. 😂 If it has one. .Your plexi I mean. I've played one, but it's been years. Loved that start of the feedback you started to get after your vid where you were playing. Killer Harmonics. Thanks again sir.

Bugera's suck. Take it from a tech. Good luck when the Infinium board takes a shit & also there are no schematics available to anyone other than an authorized repair center. Their circuit board traces are covered in epoxy & working on them is a nightmare. Save up & buy the real Marshall! Bugera's sound like a Marshall with a blanket over your speaker cabinet.

Invite me to finland! Let’s jam!

why do i feel that this amp doesn't sound like marshall

Good Playing today! I Think Behringer Owns Bugera!

Wtf it sounds amazing.